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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Advanced Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 10 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The First Spring Festival

Your first Spring Festival as a married couple: say it's your turn to give red envelopes now, ask who to, hear the village children, ask whether you go to Lan's parents' on the second day, pay them a new year's call, and hear that it's time for a baby.

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THE STORY

The eve and the second day of the Spring Festival, Thursday the twenty-third of January, first in the Chens' house in Longjing village and then at the door of Lan's parents' flat in Hangzhou.

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该 我们 发 红包 了。gāi wǒmen fā hóngbāo leit's our turn to give red envelopes now
新婚 第 一 年。xīnhūn dì yī niánthe first year of marriage, word for word new marriage first year
新婚 第 一 年， 该 我们 发 红包 了。xīnhūn dì yī nián, gāi wǒmen fā hóngbāo leThe first year of marriage: it's our turn to give red envelopes now.
给 谁 发？gěi shéi fāWho do we give them to?
恭喜 发财！gōngxǐ fācáiWishing you wealth!
孩子。háizichildren
给 村里 的 孩子。gěi cūnlǐ de háiziTo the village children.
回 娘家。huí niángjiago back to the wife's family home, word for word return to mother's home
初二 回 娘家 吗？chū'èr huí niángjia maOn the second day, do we go to your parents'?
对， 初二 回 我 爸妈 家。duì, chū'èr huí wǒ bàmā jiāYes, on the second we go to my parents'.

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